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Same As You Are · Pay Money To My Pain

EXERCISE 9 OF 47
Groove G
158 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO 2
6 groovesICBS5S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Same As You Are on drums

200 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-45, snare through bars 46-60, hi-hat through bars 61-70, silence through bars 71-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-85, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 47 and 49, and 31 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---X---X---X---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|
Same As You Are -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-70 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-102 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 124-150 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Same As You Are?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Same As You Are hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Same As You Are?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED